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lvmchk(1M)

HP-UX 11i Version 3: February 2007
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NAME

lvmchk — check if disk volume is under HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM) control

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/lvmchk device_path

DESCRIPTION

The lvmchk command returns information about the disk volume specified by the device_path parameter.

Options

lvmchk recognizes the following option:

device_path

The device path name of a disk volume. device_path can be a block disk, raw disk, or a logical volume.

RETURN VALUE

lvmchk returns the following values

0

The volume specified by device_path is under the control of LVM.

1

The volume specified by device_path is not under the control of LVM.

255

There was an internal I/O error on the volume specified by device_path.

EXAMPLES

Examine whether volumes /dev/dsk/c0t6d0, /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0, and /dev/vg00/lvol1 belong to LVM or not.

lvmchk /dev/dsk/c0t6d0 lvmchk /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0 lvmchk /dev/vg00/lvol1

AUTHOR

lvmchk was developed by HP.

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